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by pixelpoet 566 days ago
No offense but this doesn't seem "revolutionary" at all / people have been doing hierarchical representations and multipole expansions since forever. The presentation of a single fixed-resolution bitmap of dense equations with no introduction of terms feels like it's trying to do proof by intimidation.

When doing path guiding in Monte Carlo path tracing you often have lots of nasty low probability / high contribution paths that make gravitational simulation seem easy. After all, if you can a-priori simulate light paths efficiently, then you can efficiently solve optical computers / the Halting Problem.